ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 4

Aspects of non-governmental organization in Egypt and Arab awaking

  • Author:
  • Dileep Kumar Maurya
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 53 to 60

Doctoral Research Fellow, (JRF), Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Online published on 5 May, 2014.

Abstract

By starting, Egypt is considered to be a middle power with significant cultural, political, and military influence in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Arab world. This paper is addressing to the politics of this so called Egyptian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Arab Spring. It also examines that after collapse of the British Colonial powers gradually Egypt experienced the growth of NGOs but previously these were largely religious. Here, the work is tried to explore the overall understanding of the origin of NGOs in the Egypt and its impact on the people resulting Arab awakening. This Literature is tired to explain the basic questions and exploring the very nuance of politics that what are the NGOs and their role in the Arab awakening? How these entities play a greater role? And discusses why and how it operates in the Egypt, and why it seeks cooperation from other international organizations such as the United Nations to effectively carryout this process of movements, and to reforms the socio-economic-political and military system of the Egypt. At the end, it addresses various challenges and impacts of CSOs over Arab Spring in Egypt. This research will use both primary and secondary, sources of data and adopt inductive methods to analyze the subject of the research.

Keywords

West Asia, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), UNESCO, Middle East, North Africa (MENA)